Modern Software Engineering (Ship It! #71)
Dave Farley, co-author of Continuous Delivery, is back to talk about his latest book, Modern Software Engineering, a Top 3 Software Engineering best seller on Amazon UK this September. Shipping good software starts with you giving yourself permission to do a good job. It continues with a healthy curiosity, admitting that you don't know, and running many experiments, safely, without blowing everything up. And then there is scope creep...
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- 0:00 Welcome
- 1:00 Sponsor: Honeycomb
- 2:26 Intro
- 7:27 The Modern Software Engineering book
- 13:00 What principles will survive?
- 18:18 It's nobody else's job to give you permission to do a good job
- 25:55 Sponsor: FireHydrant
- 27:23 Find the balance of speed
- 30:19 Gerhard makes a confession
- 34:59 You won't get this right. Not at first.
- 42:28 Real world fitness functions
- 48:51 Everything worth doing is hard
- 50:56 Plans vs proposals
- 59:51 Sponsor: Sentry DEX
- 1:02:26 Video: The real reason cyberpunk 2077's software failed
- 1:07:38 David's favorite t-shirt
- 1:12:15 What's your favourite video?
- 1:15:14 These principles are universal
- 1:17:54 David's takeaway
- 1:21:16 Wrap up
- 1:21:33 Outro
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